Lego Mania Frame

Baer Charlton

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The kid is now 25 and just got married. In his mother's attic are 17 boxes with castles, space ships, and "parts".

When he was 9, all he wanted for Christmas was an official Lego T-Shirt. This year, he's getting it again.

Mom brought me the photo [4x6] and a large box of "orphan parts".

3 hours later this morning. . . .

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and the picture only a framer can enjoy. Notice the "official Lego sawtooth hanger". Sorry Ron, no wall buddies in Legoland.
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Baer, cool use of the legos. Wish I had a dollar for every lego I stepped on (while walking through a dark house, barefooted) when my son was so "into" them.
 
Janet, As a grandmother you get revenge by buying lots of legos for the grands . . . or frame a picture for christmas. :D
 
Man! I've got a huge box of those in my son's closet. I think I'll make some corner samples for my wall! Just think how long we could put off ordering moulding if we used that... hmmm, I used to be pretty good at Lego building.

By the way, did you glue them, or is it "rebuildable"?

Betty
 
Baer, great minds think alike. (Or, how could you resist when given Legos..)

My son is a Lego fiend, any building set, for that matter. He doesn't like to follow the directions, either too stubborn, or too c creative with his own ideas, not sure which.

Showed him the frame- he loved it. I have a feeling I will be presented with a frame sometime soon!
 
Betty, First you build it up. Then you carefully take it about 1/2 apart. Carefully remembering where all the parts go, then medium super glue NO ACCELLERATOR!! That desolves legos. Medium sets up fast enough. And the Legos are self holding anyway.
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It was in our window only about 5 hours saturday and I think we may have a few bites. Even when I told them that the design time was 3.5 hours @ $50/hr.... the one lady just laughed. "My husband owns a plumbing company. Don't tell me about labor costs. He gets $95/hr. He can afford a few fun filled hours with Legos."

You gotta just love a customer like that. I seem to remember a $900 mirror & frame we sold her for her dining-room.
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I've been having some weird dreams lately about old dolls parts - - - just the arms actually. Maybe a frame made just from a whole bunch of dolls arms..... It's the only appropriate frame for a . . . .
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"coat of arms".
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Oh gosh, I hope Jerry reads this.
 
Sorry, customer walked in while posting before. Wanted to say that it was a great looking design, and thanks for the warning about super glue melting legos.

We have tons of legos at home, so I have plenty of "inventory" to work with! My problem with legos is that they don't stay together well. Hmm, maybe with the v-nailer.....
 
Bob, It's not the super glue that melts the legos, it's the accelerator that most glue freaks use to speed up that d**n slow process.....

The super glue works just fine. Just keep it all inside the blocks. :D

PS: Yes, the V-nailer works just fine on Legos.
 
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